Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham Names New Board Members

Needham, Mass. - At the recent Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham (BID Needham) Annual Meeting of the Boards of Trustees and Advisors, the hospital announced new members to its Board of Trustees and its Board of Advisors. 

Joining the Board of Trustees are Needham residents Ginny Caggiano, the founder and principal of Crackerjack Communications who will be serving as incoming chair for the next three years; Jeremy Cramer, who is CEO of Exponential Philanthropy, and John Wright, who is a partner and global head of credit investments at Bain Capital Credit.  

New to the Board of Advisors are Frank Antin, a previous Board of Trustees member and retired business executive; Elisabeth Brewer, MD, a physician at the concierge internal medicine practice, MD2 Wellesley; David Geisinger, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Christopher Teachout, vice president of business banking at Dedham Savings Bank. 

Photo courtesy of Beth Israel Lahey Health. Pictured are Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Board of Advisors members: Samantha Trotman Burman (Outgoing Chair), Elisabeth Brewer, MD, Christopher Teachout, David Geisinger, Ginny Caggiano (Incoming Chair), and John Fogarty (not pictured: Frank Antin).

“We are grateful to these members of our community for offering their time, effort, and resources to benefit the hospital,” said John Fogarty, president, BID Needham. “We look forward to the support of these new board members while we continue our mission to offer extraordinary care to our local community.”

Beth Israel Deaconess-Needham (BID Needham) is a licensed 73-bed acute care community hospital that has served residents in Needham and surrounding communities for over 100 years. It is part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, a health care system that brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, more than 4,800 physicians and 38,000 employees. 

Thanks to Beth Israel Lahey Health for contributing this news to Westwood Minute.